dunl

Hi all,

I have some good news ad some bad news. After at least a year of sitting neglected, I finally cut a breather hole in my cat to see if that was the issue. The good news is that she finally took off like a shot - the bad news is that the latch let go again and I had an unfortunate hood fly-up incident.

Looks like I bent the hinges, so I'll be getting some of those, but I was wondering on people's thoughts on hood pins, something like the Aerocatch style flush mount. I figure there's be no repeat offense this way.

If so, I'm heading to Calgary on Tuesday, so it might be nice to pick some up there.

dunl

No one's ever used these on an older much-loved Porsche, or any other sports car for that matter?

LC MotorSports

TRG uses them on all their GS cars.

pormgb

I use them, they look good and work very well.

dunl

I think I just bought the same ones. Any chance you could snap some pics of how you installed them?

Turbodan

why not just close your hood?

dunl

I thought these would look nice when I drive around with it open.

Turbodan

ha ha
curious did it brake the windshield?

dunl

Yeah, the hinges bent a bit, so the bottom two corners of the windshield cracked.

ronnie993tt

...better air flow.......

Turbodan

sorry about your mishap. good luck with the fix.

dunl

Thanks, appreciate that. She's a project car, and I have very little invested in her, so it's all good.

lopro

ive had my hood come up on me before its not fun at all.. I was going 60kms with traffic all around me. scary
Sorry to hear about your situation. Glad everything was ok.

The hood pins your talking about look great, much nicer than the other style in my opinion